# Garfunkel and Oates are so terrible

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 31, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garfunkel-and-oates-are-so-terrible/726630 "2015-07-31T03:50:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garfunkel-and-oates-are-so-terrible/726630/7 "2015-07-31T04:55:15Z")

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> [@Frylock](#):
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> Didn’t want to threadshit so I start a new thread.

I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to [link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=763591) to it, though.

I with you on this one, **Frylock**. I don’t like them either—no offense to those that do.

> [@drad\_dog](#):
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> They have one trick as i see it. It takes effort to write all those lyrics, I will grant, but it’s so cutesy. That’s the joke they have: They sing acoustic cute, and you are supposed to laugh.

Or, as **RealityChuck** put it in the other thread:

> [@Garfunkel and Oates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garfunkel-and-oates/726421/18):
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> What I love is the way they sing about raunchy things in their innocent and matter-of-fact way.

Personally, I don’t find this shtick funny or clever or cute, just off-putting.

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